Yes, literally: It's time for generational change. The leaders that got us into this mess won't be the ones to get us out of it -- all of them have to either step back or get primaried & have to defend why they're the best person to lead us forward. www.axios.com/2025/09/05/h...

Welp. I beat Dark Souls.

Want to take action for migrants and refugees but not sure where to start? Sign up to Praxis' free email course Solidarity not Strangers and get involved! act.praxis.org.uk/solidarity-n...

It's a blood red-letter day! Vera Dika's early, studious, practically geometric breakdown of the slasher film, from the stalkers to the survivors, is updated and lookin' good. One to buy. @uniwalespress.bsky.social @danieljsheppard.bsky.social ‬ @wick85c.bsky.social www.uwp.co.uk/book/games-o...

Representing my Alma mater

I began my PhD in 2008, and one of the first books recommended to me by my supervisor, Stacey Abbott, was an out-of-print tome she described as “essential”. I tracked down a copy at the Bodleian Library and looked over my shoulder for punitive librarians…

DELIGHTED to receive my gratis copy of GAMES OF TERROR, courtesy of @uniwalespress.bsky.social. This revised volume contains Vera Dika’s full original text w/ additional writings, as well as an all-new foreword that I am SO incredibly proud to share, co-authored with @wick85c.bsky.social 👻📚🎉

Clock is ticking. How long until he ruins this? Taking all bets. Mine: he’s already done it somewhere nobody is.

I had the absolute pleasure last Sunday of doing a little acting on a horror short. It was tremendous fun and I’m thrilled to have had the opportunity.

Putting my gender on Vinted

How many versions of Tripping Billies does one person need in their music library?

Only 12 angry men? Those were the days

New meme y’all.

#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

A slightly more optimistic read. jacobin.com/2025/01/trum...

SHOAH (1985) - Claude Lanzmann's remarkable 9.5 hour documentary about the Holocaust - is now on the BBC iPlayer. It's the first time it's been on the BBC for a decade. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Cooked me a big ol’ honkin’ batch of veggie chilli today.

Okay fine I’m doing The Artist’s Way this year.

I want to share something I made last week which I think is the best thing I’ve done all 2024. It got almost no traction on insta.

My family and I will be celebrating brat Christmas this year please respect our beliefs and our privacy this season.

It’s here! The new deluxe edition of The Great Escape by Arrow Video. Booklet includes a new essay by me.

DELIGHTED to announce that Vera Dika, Wickham Clayton & I have been working on a second edition of Dika’s O.P. book, GAMES OF TERROR: HALLOWEEN, FRIDAY THE 13TH AND THE FILMS OF THE STALKER CYCLE, soon to be published by the University of Wales Press 🤓📚🎉 Pre-order (HB) for May 2025:

I feel like this was the greatest celebrity post of all time because you initially want to make fun of it because we’re all irony poisoned jerks but the sheer scale of human compassion overwhelms it and you end up going yes Vincent I also want to help a pig see the stars for the first time

Woke up this morning remembering how, after Kerry's 2004 loss to W, the Democratic party and the press decided it was abortion's fault. When I tell you that this is not an exaggerated memory:

Our local dog park is unofficial. Some neighbours are truly evil (I don’t use the term lightly) and want to stop people walking their dogs there. If you can, please sign my petition for a local space earmarked for dog walkers. meetings.westoxon.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD...

This has only happened to me a couple of times, but it's bananas that there are citations of my work trying to use it to support arguments that violent media is bad for kids. Aside from the fact that my work doesn't say that, there are a lot of other and more obvious sources that could be drawn on.

New issue of Journal for Religion, Film, and Media is out. This one focusing on... well, time travel. Open access, as always. jrfm.eu/index.php/oj...

Writers: repost a random piece that you're proud of. This is from a year or two back, but I thought it was pretty good, and I sure do love this movie. flinchingwithdelight.com/2022/09/06/s...

There are gonna be disabled folks who can't contribute anything to The Cause. They have no money, no energy, no physical ability, no time. They will need to receive and will never be able to give back. You gotta save them, too. Especially them.

As a U.S. American expat in the U.K. it’s hard not to see meaning in the fact that this year the election falls on Bonfire Night.

The latest QRFV overflows w/genre goodies: desktop horror, vehicular love in TITANE & CRASH, psychoanalysis of Cronenberg, the romance of KING KONG '05. #JuliaChan #KatarzynaPaszkiewicz #KobeKeymeulen #GlenMimura @wick85c.bsky.social @danieljsheppard.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/gqrf20/4...

Hi folks, I have contributed an essay to this amazing-looking new edition of The Great Escape coming soon from Arrow! If you know of any disc producers who need content for their releases please let me know or pass my name on! www.arrowfilms.com/4k/the-great...

Hi folks, have a look at this indiegogo for a micro budget horror film a friend of mine is involved with: igg.me/at/bloodstream

Well folks, in a necessary destruction of my 90s desire to not 'sell out', I've finally gotten my website up and running. WickhamClayton.com for all your Wickham Clayton needs.

Pontificating, gesticulating. My talking head interview on ‘The Wicker Man at 50’ on last year’s Vintage Classics 4K release of the film.

We are truly in a golden age of impressive yet (ouch) expensive books on #horror film & television. These 4 titles are brand new & bursting with genre goodness, ask your librarians to order them! They love that new book smell! Eds @wick85c.bsky.social @annamartamarini.bsky.social and many more.

I’m thrilled to announce I am Associate Editor of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, along with EIC Vera Dika, Daniel Sheppard Lorenzo Lazzari. In the coming weeks we will reveal our vision & solicit articles, so please keep an eye out for this! www.tandfonline.com/journals/gqr...

Here it is, my award-winning 2020 short film A Possible History of Ghosts. I haven’t uploaded it onto another service, but it is now public on FilmFreeway. Please enjoy. filmfreeway.com/APossibleHis...?

You have two new options thanks to me.

And my 2023 favourite rewatches:

Here are my 2023 favourite first watches:

@detroitlions.bsky.social are division champs yall!

A fantastic essay on Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar. open.substack.com/pub/lustyscr...